Am 11.06.2011 04:46, schrieb John F. Eldredge: > Dermot McNally <derm...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On 11 June 2011 02:13, John F. Eldredge <j...@jfeldredge.com> wrote: >> >>> When I signed up in the first place, I was required to say "I accept having >>> my data placed under the CC-by-SA license", but, unlike the new license, I >>> was not required to waive my right to have a say in any future license >>> change. >> >> You are not waiving your right to have a say with the new CT. You are >> waiving your right to have a veto. I can't name a single mapper >> important enough to have one of those. >> >> >>> The OSMF is replacing democracy with oligarchy, so that, in the future, no >>> mappers except the tiny fraction who are members of the OSMF will have a >>> say in any future license change, such as changing over to charging for the >>> use of map data. >> >> No, we've never had democracy prior to CT. What we've had is a >> situation where any one mapper may erect a barrier to whatever >> decision needs to be made. CT replaces this with democracy requiring a >> 2/3 majority of active mappers. Those mappers do not have to be OSMF >> members as your comments above suggest. Have you actually read the CT? >> >> Dermot > > Yes, I have read the Contributor Terms. Have you? The contributor terms > that were publicly announced included having to agree in advance to any > future changes in the licensing, or else have my existing edits removed and > be unable to contribute any further edits. This forced agreeing in advance > means that we won't be given the chance to vote yes or no in the future. > This is democracy only in the sense of the sham elections held in > dictatorships.
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